Arrested Development

The foie gras of television - delicious, but only if you have the
stomach for it.

Jason Bateman in
Arrested Development.

Type

Comedy

Channel

7

Date

Thursday February 9

Time

11:30 PM

How do you explain a comedy that is so funny it makes your sides
hurt when you watch it, but is still one of the most spectacular
commercial failures in recent memory? Poor programming from Seven
has to shoulder some of the blame, but so does the show. Maybe it's
the foie gras of television - delicious, but only to people who
have the stomach for it.

This show is so razor-sharp, it will make you bleed. Its only
real weakness (apart from its lack of success in commercial terms)
is that the more you watch, the more you realise the show treads a
lot of water and takes its sweet old time advancing the story.

Blind attorney Maggie Lizer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) returns
tonight and she's a welcome sight. Louis-Dreyfus, much loved by the
Seinfeldegentsia, is fantastic and Lizer's demented
relationship with the show's everyman hero Michael Bluth (Jason
Bateman) is a joy to watch. And as one relationship struggles to
bloom, another struggles to die: George-Michael (Michael Cera) is
trying to end his relationship with Ann (Mae Whitman).

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